Denise Van Outen
- Profession: TV Presenter
- Place/Date of Birth: Basildon, Essex, 27 May 2020
It seems that Denise is so content with boyfriend Richard Traviss that she is ready to settle down and get married! The current darling of the West End shows - she has said that she would consider starting a family with Richard and revealed the reason why she likes him so much - as he ’wouldn’t dream of asking me to give anything up’. Bless him!
Van Outen to star in a one-woman show - 14/12/02
Islington resident Denise Van Outen’s one-woman West End show will begin a three-month run in April. She will be starring in a revamped version of Tell Me On A Sunday.
Denise will also be recording an album of music from the show, which is due to be released in the spring. The production at London’s Gielgud Theatre from April 8 follows former Big Breakfast host Van Outen’s stint in Chicago.
’Boys and Girls’ - but girl quits - 26/11/02
Islington resident Denise Van Outen has decided she will not be appearing on Chris Evans new Channel Four series Boys and Girls. She has said that she will concentrate on her stage career instead.
Denise explained - "The TV may go ahead with someone else - I’ve absolutely no idea what will happen to it " and that she had to ’make a decision and the decision was to make a go of being in the theatre’. She is set to star for Andrew Lloyd Webber, in a new one-woman West End musical - Tell Me on Sunday.
A spokesman for the Chris Evans show has said that it was never confirmed that Denise would be part of the Boys and Girls anyway, as with her many commitments it would have been impossible. But they wish her well, and the TV show looks set to air in Spring now, rather than the New Year as planned. But who will be the girl host now?
Denise spreads some fairy dust on Marks and Spencers -12/10/02
A campaign has started which is pushing Marks and Spencers back up the top of the charts, and all because Denise Van Outen is dressed in a skimpy fairy outfit.
Denise is one of a host of celebrities including Graham Norton, Cat Deeley, Joan Collins and David Beckham who say why the store is their top place for Christmas. The ad campaign even has brought comedian Ronnie Barker out of retirement, and features him sitting at the head of the Christmas table! The ads will run until Christmas Eve and will have the strapline ’magic and sparkle’.
Denise will be pictured in her fairy outfit sitting on top of a huge present asking the celebs What Makes Christmas Special? I think most fella’s answers will be obviously Denise in the fairy outfit, naturally!
Tv duo set to join forces again... 29/10/02
Denise is poised to be back on our screens starring with Chris Evans in a new game show. They worked well together during those Big Breakfast days, and Chris’s new Channel Four project ’Boys and Girls’ will see 100 men and women competing against eachother for a weekly prize of £100,000!
Denise is reportedly considering a deal that is worth a massive £500,000, so the cost of five weeks prizes then...
Lloyd Webber taken by Van Outen - 15/03/02
Denise Van Outen is set to become the star of a new musical, written specially for the former Big-Brekfast presenter by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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Denise attended the famous Sylvia Young’s stage school; her schoolmates included Baby Spice, Dani Behr and Martine McCutheon. She’s a press favourite and celebrity since she joined Channel 4’s early show The Big Breakfast in 1995. She is well known for her on-screen chemistry and crazy antics with co-host Johnny Vaughan and the pair realised a single for Comic Relief - a cover of the Kylie & Jason song "Especially For You" in 1998, which made the top ten.
After The Big Breakfast, Denise presented the saucy programme Something For the Weekend, and Record Of The Year. She also starred in the sitcom Babes In The Wood and had roles in the film Love Honour & Obey and Tube Tales.
She famously nicked an ashtray from a royal reception for ’young achievers’, and then returned it with an apologetic note to Buckingham Palace. As well as flashing her bra at Prince Charles’s back during a charity pop concert, she told reporters that she’d only done it to make the pop group Steps laugh at an inappropriate moment.
She dated musician and lead singer in Jamiroquai, Jay Kay for three years. They were engaged and rumoured to be getting married. However, they’ve since split somewhat acrimoniously and she still lives in her bachelor-girl flat in Islington.
Denise’s most recent works includes starring as Roxie Hart in the hit musical "Chicago".
November 2007